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What is your opinion on this album? How does it compare to the rest of Radiohead's work?
I find it really amazing and is my third favourite Radiohead album.

5/10 at best.

I think a lot of people who are avant-teens like it because it has polyrhythms and shit but honestly it is a bad album.

It's my favourite from them. It's so tight, everything is in its right place. The first time I heard it I wasn't expecting much because people didn't really seem to like it as much as the other albums, so I was blown away upon first listen and it helped me through a hard time in high school. Good times with this album, it's like an old friend to me now.

>How does it compare to the rest of Radiohead's work?
Not favorably.

I still like it though, but mostly because of the memories it brings back when I listen to it.

Why do you view it as a bad album? I've seen this opinion a thousand times, but arguments were rarely present...

More cliched than ever, The King of Limbs (2011) is mostly a rhythmic affair, with the beats prevailing over the rest. Bloom is brainy for the sake of being brainy: convoluted rhythm, angst-filled droning vocals, a bit of minimalist keyboards and sleepy trumpet wails. Morning Mr Magpie puts the project into a different light: this is mood music made out of pretentious ideas. The single Lotus Flower ventures into disco territory but it ends up sounding like a bad version of synth-pop of the 1980s. But that's still better than no rhythm at all: the slow slow slow piano ballad Codex is simply devoid of real music: it's just somebody strumming a piano and crooning a trite melody. And Give Up The Ghost it's not even that: just a hippie-style litany repeated over and over again. The ambition of these songs is often hilarious. Yorke's insipid and narcotized singing certainly does not help rescue the rest.

Woah, that's sharp. For me, codex is Pyramid song tier

Pretty boring, especially the first half.

I defended this album, but it was immediately obvious to me that AMSP was better.

Not sure what it is. Only songs that I keep coming back to are Bloom, separator, and Lotus Flower.